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Anthropoid busts of Deir el Medineh. Analyses, Catalogue, Appendices and other Sites and Collections. DFIFAO 49. Afrique du Nord alimentent les conversationsSince an anthropoid bust apparently entered Europe as early as 1798, these small sculptures with human heads on aniconic supports with shoulder like tops have attracted the attention of collectors and scholars. Over the last 130 years they have been given many modern names that attempt to identify their function, but only a few are inscribed with ancient Egyptian names of persons or deities. The busts were excavated in quantity at Deir el Medineh in